craigs character would be fairly low down the list of those id follow to a sequel tbh
Poirot stories are not about Poirot
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 6 January 2020 03:02 (four years ago) link
I would totally see a Knives Out sequel, and yet one of the great things about the movie is that it's a star-studded Hollywood entertainment that's not a franchise.
― jaymc, Monday, 6 January 2020 03:17 (four years ago) link
Why has Knives Out — an old-school whodunnit, unrelated to any established franchise or source material — done so well? Some of the movie’s success might be thanks to good holiday timing, but it also has something that the latest entries in the Star Wars, Jumanji, Frozen, Addams Family, and Maleficent franchises do not: incredible word-of-mouth buzz....The sort of word of mouth that sells out theaters five weeks into a film’s release often has very little to do with critics and everything to do with people telling their friends and family that a movie is actually good. Not “good for a Marvel movie,” not “a little long but has some good special effects” or even “definitely going to win some Oscars,” but good in that way that makes it hard to shut up about — usually the result of a movie exceeding expectations in some, often ineffable, way. That’s what Knives Out is: a pretty good movie that’s exceeding people’s expectations because their expectations for the movies are so damn low.
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The sort of word of mouth that sells out theaters five weeks into a film’s release often has very little to do with critics and everything to do with people telling their friends and family that a movie is actually good. Not “good for a Marvel movie,” not “a little long but has some good special effects” or even “definitely going to win some Oscars,” but good in that way that makes it hard to shut up about — usually the result of a movie exceeding expectations in some, often ineffable, way. That’s what Knives Out is: a pretty good movie that’s exceeding people’s expectations because their expectations for the movies are so damn low.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/knives-out-rian-johnson-box-office-movies
― jaymc, Monday, 6 January 2020 03:19 (four years ago) link
(Johnson has repeatedly said that while he's always been disinterested in sequels, the beauty of doing further Benoit Blanc Mysteries is that they'd not be sequels, just new mysteries about different characters.)
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 6 January 2020 03:36 (four years ago) link
xp it manages to be a whodunnit and fun in a very contemporary american way, whereas a lot of pure whodunnits try to be period pieces or otherwise entangled and it limits the audience the joke about the house being acquired contemporarily pokes fun at that, because it’s the atemporal element
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 04:09 (four years ago) link
whodunnit and fun in a very contemporary american way
... while using and playing with all the traditional genre tropes. Obviously "genre tropes, but contemporary!" is not a new idea, but normally it's not done this well.
― lukas, Friday, 10 January 2020 01:11 (four years ago) link
this was fabulous, loved the coffee cup framing and all the delicious overacting and mugging, like an updated parody of Murder By Death. all the acting was pitch perfect.
Why has Knives Out — an old-school whodunnit, unrelated to any established franchise or source material — done so well?
because America want to see rich people get theirs for once
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Monday, 13 January 2020 05:37 (four years ago) link
Kinda surprised how un-twisty it was. I was expecting at least one more surprise in the final third. I think movies like Wild Things have permanently messed up my ‘twist anticipation’ gland.
― piscesx, Monday, 13 January 2020 10:33 (four years ago) link
really happy i went out to see this in the theater, it was so much fun. i was cracking up at random daniel craig line deliveries. the way the tone modulated from farcical to sinister was a neat and difficult trick--thinking of the family descending on marta's failing car like zombie vultures vs. the genuinely unsettling encounter with walt in the hallway of her apartment. it made the last shot feel very well-earned. also, since i haven't seen it mentioned in this thread at least, what a delight christopher plummer is in his scenes.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 18 January 2020 03:27 (four years ago) link
great cameo by downtown maynard, massachusetts too
I appreciated that Ana de Armas, probably 29ish when this was shot, was able to play a nuanced character that didn’t seem artificially old or young. Just a responsible person, not a kid, who lives with her mom and works a private nursing job, but still has social potential to live out
― babu frik fan account (mh), Saturday, 18 January 2020 04:19 (four years ago) link
Just saw it again with Rian Johnson’s commentary in my ear, some great stuff about sets and locations, improvised moments, and especially cinematography. Biggest revelation for me was hearing that Benoit Blanc’s voice owes the most to Ken Burns talking head, writer, and Lost Causer Shelby Foote.Also Johnson storyboards his movies himself with bad line drawings, and one of the key payoffs for Marta’s story, of knowing by look and feel which drug was which, wasn’t in his first draft but was pitched by his first readers.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 19 January 2020 00:30 (four years ago) link
wow yeah shelby foote did basically talk like that
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 19 January 2020 00:56 (four years ago) link
omg that is awesome
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 January 2020 00:58 (four years ago) link
We’re still in theaters this weekend! If you haven’t caught @KnivesOut yet or if you want another shot of whudunnitness we’ve got you covered. Though I can’t promise it will equal the splendor of my original storyboard vision. pic.twitter.com/95rzRbSmBE— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) January 19, 2020
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Sunday, 19 January 2020 02:39 (four years ago) link
lmao
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 19 January 2020 02:45 (four years ago) link
nice to know that i share the drawing ability of a successful film director
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 19 January 2020 02:46 (four years ago) link
I don't :(
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 January 2020 03:16 (four years ago) link
Hahah I love the Safdies reply to that.
People laughed at my boards, but they’re helpful. pic.twitter.com/jzGPHWSnjM— SAFDIE (@JOSH_BENNY) January 19, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 January 2020 03:52 (four years ago) link
that last effort has me humming "that aint workin, thats the way you do it"
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 January 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link
And we're off:
Update: Lionsgate's CEO says a Knives Out sequel is officially happening. Production is getting underway soon. https://t.co/USnQHmBWN7 pic.twitter.com/atjZjrlL39— Peter Sciretta (@slashfilm) February 6, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 February 2020 23:07 (four years ago) link
Blanc. Benoit Blanc.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 6 February 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
this movie fucking ruled!!!
I always associate detective stories with medicine, but daniel craig reminded me of someone particularly charismatic and brilliant I trained under which endeared me to his character even more than I might have otherwise. totally bought the accent and was ROLLING at “detective KFC” or whatever that diss was
ensemble cast overall was fantastic I thought. ana de armas was really good! so much goodness in her character. hope she gets some critical love for this role. and man did she look good in this movie
― k3vin k., Sunday, 9 February 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
"CSI: KFC"
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Sunday, 9 February 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
how's the novel
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 February 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
SUPER racist! v glad he updated it.
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Sunday, 9 February 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
what novel?
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
saw this around Xmas and k3vin otm, Daniel Craig was great as was everyone else especially Ana de Armas. it is always good to see Craig cutting loose w/an accent and w/his not inconsiderable comic chops and natural charisma. the manner in which the mystery was "solved" early on was an excellent red herring, for how it all continued to pile up thereafter. biggest laughs in the theater came from the Gravity's Rainbow zing and "that was the dumbest car chase of all time!" plus:
"I spoke in the car about the hole at the center of this donut. And what you and Harlan did that fateful night seems at first glance to fill that hole perfectly. A donut hole in a donut's hole. But we must look a little closer. And when we do, we see that the donut hole has a hole in its center. It is not a donut hole, but a smaller donut with its own hole, and our donut is not holed at all!"
― omar little, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
This movie was lit
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
i am somewhat ashamed, but also not, to share with you that at the climactic shot of marta holding the mug on the balcony i whispered to myself, "boom. suck it"
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 20:51 (four years ago) link
very good movie, i think it's safe to say that the shushing during the denouement was the best part.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
A donut hole in a donut's hole.
I heard the rest of his monologue but I was giggling through it after he dropped this
― mh, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
btw this is super OTM
When they were like "Harlan was friends with his nurse" I was ready to roll my eyes and grimace through a bunch of painful pandering that played up the lecherous old man angle but then they showed the two of them interacting and I sat there going "wait, I'm buying that they ARE friends, this rules, what is happening" and that reaction made me so much more invested in the subsequent events and the family's behavior; all of that rests on how pitch-perfect de Armas was in that role and her obvious chemistry with the rest of the cast.
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link
i probably said this already but her joy and saltiness and confidence with harlan was utterly at odds with how she behaved with anyone else (apart from her family) - it was a great, bold choice to show that contrast and reveal this other side of her that’s basically hidden throughout the rest of the movie
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
otm
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
Love Finds Knives OutOut West with Knives OutKnives Out Rides HighKnives Out Gets Spring FeverJudge Knives Out and SonKnives Out Meets DebutanteKnives Out's Private SecretaryLife Begins for Knives OutThe Courtship of Knives OutKnives Out's Blonde Trouble https://t.co/GnIHqL8Pt3— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) February 11, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
btw i guess i will see this. MoMA is having a Craig retro in March; do you think the theater audience experience will add much?
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
Sure, it's well filmed!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
(Plus, I love watching any movie with a twist or surprises or shocks with a crowd just to hear the reactions.)
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:57 (four years ago) link
The audience I saw it with was really into it. Lots of laughs throughout. Definitely enhanced the experience.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:57 (four years ago) link
It absolutely benefits from a packed theatre and a big screen for laughs, gasps, and pretty / unshowy photography.
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
idk how he missed Knives Out II: The Sharpening
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 13 February 2020 05:44 (four years ago) link
SPORKS THROUGH— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) June 25, 2019
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Thursday, 13 February 2020 07:48 (four years ago) link
this was extremely entertaining
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 13 February 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link
I just saw this a third time. The writing, direction and acting remain air-tight, and like my last viewing there were all sorts of subtleties I caught that I hadn't quite noticed before. But one of my biggest fresh take aways this time is that the lighting and make-up are impeccable.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 February 2020 04:27 (four years ago) link
I honestly don’t know from cinematography digital or otherwise but Steve Yedlin is evidently thinking about these things on his very own level
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 23 February 2020 04:45 (four years ago) link
I wonder if he'll graduate to more of an A-list, since most of his stuff has been Rian Johnson or ... gunk?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 February 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
Still on 949 US screens in its 13th weekend!
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 24 February 2020 04:48 (four years ago) link
This was good. Need to watch it again for sure
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 1 March 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
The behind the scenes stuff (which is quite good, as is the commentary, which includes Yedlin) very much had Yedlin making the case about what one can do with digital cameras in particular, and Johnson, self-admittedly one for preferring film, freely admits Yedlin pretty much showed him the way on this front for the shoot.
Best bonus feature on the disc probably has to be the cast/Johnson chat after the SAG preview screening in LA in mid-November. Tons of amazing cut-up moments; Craig and Evans in particular seem like they should do some sort of separate comedy, they'd probably kill at it.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 March 2020 00:56 (four years ago) link